Star Phoenix- Why it took Trump to challenge Canada’s dairy orthodoxy
A joint Dalhousie University–McGill University study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard anywhere from hundreds of millions to as much as one billion litres of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices.
How dumb are Canadian liberals?
They hate Trump for trying to lower the cost of dairy products in grocery stores while ‘boycotting’ Loblaws for high grocery prices.
It’s almost as if they can’t think for themselves.
Almost?
At some point in the past few decades there was a study to see how much it cost Canadian municipalities to treat milk products wasted and thrown out in waste treatment plants, I don’t recall if they included the cost to treat “some” of the milk thrown out It couldn’t be “all the milk” thrown out as there are not too many city dairy farms connected to municipal sewage treatment plants.
But it’s worth knowing how large that number is, just to pile on to the idiocy that is everything the federal gov’t of Canada foists upon us.
Minor note: today is the first day Alberta starts to collect signatures to force a referendum to leave tier 2 Canada.
It likely be a few days for folks to be certified by Elections AB to actively take signatures and to show up outside drug stores and train stations asking you “have you had enough bullshit yet or would you like some more?” … and “sign here for relief” … etc
Did you enjoy 2025? ’cause 2026 is going to be lit.
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An honest question … who sets the target price that “needs” to be maintained for dairy products? There’s something to be said for a free market. Perhaps thousands of those milk cows need to be slaughtered for beef?
A little under half of Canadian cheese is produced in Quebec, and a little over a quarter by Ontario. All remaining provinces produce about 20% of national production. This despite Alberta having half of the cattle in Canada.
Alberta mostly has beef cattle while Ontario and Quebec mostly have dairy cattle.
Yes. Because the cartel won’t give Alberta more than a pittance of the allowable dairy, and a lot of Alberta grasslands can’t support any heavier agriculture.
There is certainly more to it than this, but in a closed selling market we’ll never know what the dairy percentage could be if the system didn’t constrain dairy production.
The dairy marketing board decides a price range for milk and for industrial milk to be sold at retail for, and dairy cows which fall out of production range are harvested for mostly ground beef. Their good cuts aren’t well marbled, and the taste may be different from regular beef cows. I have no idea if I’ve eaten it, perhaps it’s sold mostly as pre-formed McDonalds (or any other’s?) beef patties. Nothing surprises me, I’m only appalled, saddened, disgusted, or aghast.
I question how much milk is thrown out. Back in the day it was dehydrated and used for animal feed, especially for calves. I can’t imagine this would have stopped.
Should we be crying over spilled milk?
By the end of 2026, Carnhole, might be wishing, he’d never taken the job of PM.
We’re goin’ to loose our free trade agreement with the U.S.A., over this handful of dairy farmers(especially because of the ones in QueBeck)
Think,,,
1) no trade agreement, or an even worse trade agreement than present.
2) QueBeck threating to leave Canada.
3) Alberta threating to leave Canada.
4) No pipeline.
5) Natives pull support from liberals.
6) TSX drops big, with falling crude prices.
The worst part is that Pierre Poilievre would have done exactly the same things as Carney in exactly the same manner. He couldn’t wait to jump on the “Elbows Up!” bandwagon as soon as he realized how popular it was with ignorant, childish Canadians who seem to hate Donald Trump more than they love Canada itself.
We are badly in need of a real conservative option in Canada.
It doesn’t take much to do anything more than you “love Canada”. Who in God’s name could still love this shithole?
The sad part of supply management is that it only benefits a very limited few.
During the CWB fight my dad asked a northern farmer why he in the south should be paid less for higher quality barley. The northerner insisted because we’re in this together. But when asked if he would give up his extra quota (because the lower quality northern barley produced more grain) the northerner wouldn’t.
Québec is now the “northerner” taking advantage of supply management.
The thing about supply management is … it’s supposed to promote supply, not control the price. But everything in Canada is a monopoly. So you can have as much as you want but at this price.
The Americans getting upset about dairy is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. US farmers are massively subsided.
That said, I’d like to end the dairy cartel, I just don’t see a way of doing it without ending up beholden to the Americans for our dairy.
You could always get rid of 90% of the administrative state, and make the country lean and productive again. The Canadian economy is nothing more than a life support system for a bloated, incompetent, corrupt, bureaucratic leviathan, a parasite so big it now is killing it’s host. Dare to dream. The UK, at the zenith of it’s empire had 50,000 civil servants. It now has 560,000, that is absurd. Much more absurd, our state overburden per capita is much, much bigger.